做账 zuòzhàng bookkeeping Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 做 zuò work 做 originated as a variant form of 作. Components 作 作 SoundMeaning component zuò make The right half of 作 was corrupted to look like unrelated 古. Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 作 than it was in ancient scripts.攵 攵 Meaning component pū tap 夂 is a component form of 攴. Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangʔsaːɡs Sources Character origin Outlier Dictionary of Chinese CharactersReadings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang 账 zhàng accounts Simplified Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 长 represents the sound. Simplified form of 賬. Components 贝 贝 Meaning component bèi sea shell 长 长 Sound component zhǎng, cháng long Sources Readings & variants Unicode 賬 accounts Traditional Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 長 represents the sound. Components 貝 貝 Meaning component bèi sea shell 長 長 Sound component zhǎng, cháng long Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangtaŋs Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang